Hi Dave,
from Andrew of geocaching team SA_ParrotHead in South Australia.
A bit about Andrew.
Back in the 1970’s as a teenager I was working here in South Australia assisting with building transportable homes to send up to Darwin in the Northern Territory. The city had been devastated by Cyclone Tracey on Christmas eve, 1974. On the building site there was a group of travelling carpenters from America who introduced me to the music of Jimmy Buffett. I have been a fan ever since. I married Deborah when I was 19 and our grandchildren think granddad is a pirate. I certainly believe I have a schoolboy heart and I am growing old but not up. So when we discovered geocaching in 2004 our team name just had to reflect the music that had been with us nearly all our life. A love of travel and hunting down treasure was too strong a lure for me not to become immersed in geocaching. I am heading toward 5000 finds which puts me in the top 20 finders in Australia. The more you hunt for treasure, the more you open yourself up to the world and get to embrace it and the people who live on it. I went looking for a cache and found a way of life. I have met people from all over the world and seen some incredible places in my journey. Sat under the stars in the Simpson desert, climbed Ayres rock, cruised the East Alligator river in Kakadu national park just skims the surface of where my hunt has taken me. The group Jethro Tull has a song called Rover which I love – The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies at the end, so slip the chain and I am off again, you will find me everywhere because I am a rover.
I think I will do your product proud.
Cheers,
Andrew






We are happy Parrotheads this week.
First of all our parcel of goodies from LLAP has arrived. We will be wearing our T’s and flying the flag at Australia’s first ever Geocaching Mega event in April.
Second SA_Parrothead sent out a Geocaching travel bug (TB) in 2005 to travel to the states and hopefully visit a Jimmy Buffet concert. After 5 years this TB has finally made it to Florida at the same time that a concert is going to be played.
We are living in hope our Parrot TB will be going to the BankAtlantic Center on February 27, 2010.
Cheers SA_Parrothead
(We live in a land down under)